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Census: Population by household status and relation to the head of household 1703-2021

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9/12/2023
Persons
1703-2021
CEN9905
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Source for 1703-1960: Population Census on December 1 1960. Hagstofa Íslands, Reykjavík 1969.
The number of reference persons equals the number of family households.
The figures are not fully comparable between censuses. Tenants who do not take part in the running of the household were not counted as household members in 1940-60, but were so both earlier and later. Paupers costed by the municipality were not counted as members of the household in 1703. Vagrants in the 1703 census are classified as homeless people in the table.
In the 1910-60 censuses, there is a special category of 'tenant households' for which only the number of inhabitants were published, but not the number of such households. This category corresponds to multiperson households in the censuses of 1981 and later consisting of persons who live together but none forms a family.

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- Reference persons

Prior to 1981 the reference person was the male head of household, or the female head of household if no male was in this position. From 1981 the reference person is the oldest person who is married and economically active, or who is married if no such person is economically active, or active if none is married, or the oldest person if no-one is married or active.